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hoop sb.:
1. “tumbler's ,” hoop decorated with ribbons of different colours twisted round it LLL. III. i. 198 [190].
2. one of the bands placed at equal intervals on a quart pot 2H6 IV. ii. 75 “the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops.”
3. applied to a finger ring Mer.V. v. i. 147.
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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